US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling reproduction of spatial audio signals" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,220, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling reproduction of spatial audio signals" was invented by Juha Vilkamo (Helsinki) and Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (101) for enabling reproduction of spatial audio signals. The apparatus comprises means for obtaining (401) audio signals (501) comprising one or more channels and obtaining (403) spatial metadata (503) relating to the audio signals (501). The spatial metadata (503) comprises information that indicates how to spatially reproduce the audio sig...